In FIRST DAY BACK, you enter a school the day after a gay ninth grader, Ollie, killed himself following years of bullying. There’s an eerie hush in the halls as Ollie’s friends and tormenters gather to figure out who’s responsible and what they can do now. But does Ollie himself hold the answers for a way forward?
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2015, Ten Foot Pole Theatre, Toronto
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Playwrights Guild of Canada
Digital Script
Included in Smashing Young Man. Note: All parts may be played by a single male or female performer, or split among 8 performers (6 male, 2 female).
Included in Smashing Young Man. Note: All parts may be played by a single male or female performer, or split among 8 performers (6 male, 2 female).
Realistic
Stetko is the model boy next door and the son of middle-class parents, but when war arrives it forever changes his life. Although he does nothing more than follow his commanding officer's orders, when the war is over he stands accused of terrible crimes. A profoundly affecting two-person drama that reminds us of the faceless horror of war, and of the guilt which whole nations must carry on their shoulders. Wagner's play goes to the heart of man's inhumanity in war time.
Realistic
Guillermo Verdecchia’s first play, Another Country (originally Final Decisions [War] ), was his response to his home country Argentina’s Dirty War in 1976–83, when leaders of the military junta held that their campaign against “leftist subversives and terrorists” was the beginning of the third world war. The scale of their undertaking was defined by their statement: “First we will kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, those who are undecided.” The public relations firm Burson-Marsteller was hired to make Argentina look good while the junta (trained in counter-insurgency at the U.S.-based and funded School of the Americas, or The School of the Coups as it’s known in Latin America) and its collaborators reorganized the nation.
